WILLIAM CRANE KINNEY was born February 3, 1838, in the town of Cambridge, Lenawee Co., Mich. Remotely, he is of English, Irish and Scotch descent, but of American ancestry for several generations. His parents were Sylvanus and Hannah (Crane) Kinney. He resided on the farm where he was born and received such educational advantages as are afforded by the common school. until eighteen years of age, when he entered the high school at Adrian, Mich., where he continued, except at intervals while teaching, until the spring of 1860, when he commenced the study of law in the office of Beecher & Ilowell, at Adrian. In the fall of that year he entered the law school of the University of Michigan, spending one term there, and then came to Chicago and graduated from the Union College of Law in 1861. After being admitted to the Bar, he removed to Princeton, Ill., and became a partner of J. Q. Taylor of that place. In June, 1862, with others, he busied himself in raising and organizing the 93d Illinois Volunteer Infants, of which he became the Second Lieutenant in Company E. He served until July 7, 1865, being on staff duty the last two years. At the close of the war he settled in Nashville, Tenn., where he engaged in the collection of Government claims, remaining until 1870. He was for two years a member of the Board of Aldermen, and its president the second year. Removing to Kansas City, he there went into the real estate business, and continued in the same line after his return to Chicago in 1872. In August, 1881, he formed a partnership with Josiah E. Kimball, under the style of Kinney & Kimball, which still exists. In 1869 Mr. Kin- hey married Mary C., a daughter of Rev. Edward Troy, of the Methodist Church, and niece of Rev. William J. Rutledge, of Jacksonville, Ill., in whose family she was brought up, having lost her parents in infancy. They have one child, Troy Sylvanus, born December 1, 1871. They have resided in Hyde Park since 1876.